J. Sattarvand

Faculty of Mining Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

[ 1 ] - Commodity price uncertainty propagation in open-pit mine production planning by Latin hypercube sampling method

Production planning of an open-pit mine is a procedure during which the rock blocks are assigned to different production periods in a way that leads to the highest net present value (NPV) subject to some operational and technical constraints. This process becomes much more complicated by incorporation of the uncertainty existing in the input parameters. The commodity price uncertainty is among ...

[ 2 ] - Artificial neural network to predict the health risk caused by whole body vibration of mining trucks

Drivers of mining trucks are exposed to whole-body vibrations (WBV) and shocks during the various working cycles. These exposures have an adversely influence on the health, c...